d back there, boy!

PARANIS.
Oh let
Me kneel beside the Queen!--I always did!
Oh, Queen Iseult, how pale thou art!--But, see,
She breathes!

2D SOLDIER.
The Queen still breathes!

PARANIS.
She is not dead!

A GIRL.
Go call it out within that all may come,
She is not dead!

A KNIGHT.
Why shout ye so?

A BOY.
Behold,
The lepers would not have Iseult!

2D BOY.
Proclaim
It round about!

A MAN.
Be still, here comes the King!
Make room!

[Mark comes down the steps and stops on
the last one, motionless and staring.]

1ST SOLDIER.
King Mark, here lies the Queen Iseult.
She breathes, but shows no signs of life.

2D SOLDIER.
And here
Lies Lord Denovalin. He's dead, King Mark.

[Mark leans against a column to support
himself and stares down upon the scene.
The crowd groups itself and throngs the
door of the church behind him.]

GIMELLA.
What's this?

A BOY.
The lepers would not have Iseult.

A GIRL (to GIMELLA).
Here lies the Queen!

A MAN.
Untouched and pure!

A WOMAN.
A great,
And wondrous thing!--A judgment from the sky!

GIMELLA.
No one has touched her, see!

A VOICE.
Is she asleep?

A MAN.
See, one has wrapped her in a cloak!

SHEPHERD (calling aloud).
The cloak
Shall hang within the church!

A GIRL.
Brangaene, come!
She's smiling through her tears.

BRANGAENE (bending over ISEULT--softly).
Oh dear Iseult!
Beloved one!

GIMELLA.
She breathes as feverishly
And deep as does a sick and suffering child
At midnight in its sleep!

1ST SOLDIER.
I'll to the gate
And ask the guards if they have seen some sign
Or token how this miracle occur'd!

MARK (cries angrily).
I'll crucify the man who asks!

[All heads turn then in his direction and a
terrified expression comes over all